diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
index a011d0a892e..66198508606 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/common.nix
@@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ let
       use_gold = true;
       gold_path = "${stdenv.cc}/bin";
       is_debug = false;
+      # at least 2X compilation speedup
+      use_jumbo_build = true;
 
       proprietary_codecs = false;
       use_sysroot = false;